Linda Blachly is Senior Associate Editor for Air Transport World and Aviation Week. She joined the company in July 2010 and is responsible for producing features for Air Transport World’s monthly magazine and engaging content for the aviationweek.com. She is based in the Washington DC office.
Linda received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
Previous positions include Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Trips & Getaways magazine; Editor, The Bowie Blade-News, published by Capital-Gazette Communications; and Managing Editor, The Prince George’s Sentinel. She has also worked as an editor for book publishers, Maryland Historical Press and BOMI Institute.
Linda lives in Gambrills, MD and enjoys family time with her three adult children and six grandchildren.
US Dept. of Transportation said Wednesday that tarmac delays continue to decline at US airports since the 3 hr. tarmac delay rule went into effect in April ( ATW Daily News, Oct. 13).
SAS Group Wednesday reported a third-quarter net loss of SEK1.05 billion ($156.7 million), reversed from a SEK152 million profit in the year-ago period. The results were negatively affected by the European Commission’s SEK660 million air cargo price-fixing fine (ATW Daily News, Nov. 10) as well as the NOK160 million the group was ordered to pay to Norwegian Air Shuttle in a corporate espionage case (ATW Daily News, Oct. 1), SAS said in a statement.